EU`s lisbon treaty institutional choices and implementation

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Lisbon Treaty: overview of institutional choices and beginning implementation / Finn Laursen -- The paradox of Lisbon: supranationalism-intergovernmentalism as an administrative concept / Adriaan Schout and Sarah Wolff -- The EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) after the Lisbon Treaty / Kerstin Radtke -- The EU's internal security architecture: implementation challenges / Sarah Wolff -- The economy of the Treaty of Lisbon / Ferran Brunet -- The winner takes it all? the implications of the Lisbon Treaty for the EP's legislative role in co-decision / Rik de Ruiter and Christine Neuhold -- Institutional innovation in the EU: the permanent presidency of the European Council / Carlos Closa -- From an assistant to a manager: the high representative of the union for foreign affairs and security policy after the Treaty of Lisbon / Carolin Rüger -- The European External Action Service (EEAS): the idea and its implementation / Finn Laursen -- The common commercial policy: from Nice to Lisbon / Arne Niemann -- Preserving policy autonomy: EU development cooperation from Maastricht to Lisbon / Maurizio Carbone -- Lisbon and EPAS: what prospects for regional development in Africa and the Caribbean? / Timothy M Shaw -- A gordian knot or not? EU representation in UN climate negotiations / Piotr Maciej Kaczynski -- The Lisbon Treaty: how significant? / Finn Laursen.